OCR is the recognition of printed or written text characters by a computer. This involves photoscanning of the text OCR is the recognition of printed or written text characters by a computer. This involves photo scanning of the text character-by-character, analysis of the scanned-in image, and then translation of the character image into character codes, such as ASCII, commonly used in data processing.
The Hand Held Products’9500/9550 devices will perform OCR.
ODBC – Open DataBaseConnectivity
ODBC is an open standard application programming Interface (API) for accessing a Database. By using ODBC statements ODBC is an open standard application programming interface (API) for accessing a database. By using ODBC statements in a program, files in a number of different databases can be accessed, including Access, dBase, DB2, Excel, ms SQL Server, Oracle and Text. In addition to the ODBC software, a separate module or driver is needed for each database to be accessed. The main proponent and supplier of ODBC programming support is Microsoft.
ODBC is based on and closely aligned with The Open Group standard Structured Query Language (SQL) Call-Level Interface. It allows programs to use SQL requests that will access databases without having to know the proprietary interfaces to the databases. ODBC handles the SQL request and converts it into a request the individual database system understands.
Originally, an OEM was a company that supplied equipment to other companies to resell or incorporate into another product using the reseller’s brand name. For example, a maker of Barcode scanners like Hand Held Products might sell its scanners to a retailer like Intermec under a brand name owned by Intermec. A number of companies, both equipment suppliers and equipment resellers, still use this meaning.
More recently, OEM is used to refer to the company that acquires a product or component and reuses or incorporates it into a new product with its own brand name.
OFDM – Orthogonal Frequency
Orthogonal Frequency-division Multiplexing (OFDM) is a method of digital Modulation in which a signal is split into several narrowband channels at different frequencies. The technology was first conceived in the 1960s and 1970s during research into minimizing interference among channels near each other in frequency. In some respects, OFDM is similar to conventional frequency-division multiplexing (FDM). The difference lies in the way in which the signals are modulated and demodulated. Priority is given to minimizing the interference, or crosstalk, among the channels and symbols comprising the data stream. Less importance is placed on perfecting individual channels.
OFDM is used in 802.11a Wireless networks.
Omni-directional Scanning
Omni Directional Scanning means that, from the scanner’s perspective, a Barcode may be scanned in any degree of rotation, as long as the code is pointed toward the scanner.
The Wireless LAN Interoperability Forum (WLIF) was a consortium of companies including Casio, Data General, Fujitsu, HP, IBM, Intermec, Mitsubishi, Motorola, and Proxim, and was created in May 1996 to develop an open interoperability specification for wireless LAN devices. The result is the standard called Open Air.
Open Air is based on a 2.4GHz Frequency radio from Proxim, and uses Frequency Hopping Spread Spectrum with a fixed data rate of 1.6Mbps. Intermec, Telxonand LXE products used Open Air radios.
It is important to note that the Open Air standard has nothing whatsoever to do with the 802.11 specifications from the IEEE.
One of theworld's leading suppliers of software for information management but it is best known for its sophisticated Relational Database products (notably Oracle9i), which are used in Fortune 1000 corporations and by many of the largest Web sites.
Order Staging & Shipping is a warehouse/distribution process of assembling the right orders for the right truck in the right sequence for delivery as well as moving orders onto the truck or railcar.
Order Staging & Shipping leads to an increase order accuracy and fulfillment speed while reducing mistakes (costs) resulting in improved customer satisfaction.
An operating system (sometimes abbreviated as "OS") is the program that, after being initially loaded into a computer by a boot program, manages all the other programs in a computer. The other programs are called applications or application programs. The application programs make use of the operating system by making requests for services through a defined application program
Interface (
API). In addition, users can interact directly with the operating system through a user interface such as a command language like
DOS or a graphical user interface (
GUI) like Windows.
OS/2 is an IBM operating system for the personal computer that was initially intended to provide an alternative to Microsoft Windows for both enterprise and personal PC users.
The Intermec M200 –DCS300 series controllers run the OS/2 operating system. The DC300 has been discontinued because OS/2 is no longer available.
OSI – Open Systems Interconnection
Open Systems Interconnection (OSI) is a standard reference model for communication between two network Nodes. The model is used in developing products and understanding networks. OSI divides telecommunication into seven layers. The layers are in two groups. The upper four layers are used whenever a message passes from or to a user. The lower three layers are used when any message passes through the host computer. Messages intended for this computer pass to the upper layers. Messages destined for some other host are not passed up to the upper layers but are forwarded to another host.
